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…several volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations, published from 1947 on, constitute the most weighty and, in the first two volumes in particular, the most original body of essay writing of the middle of the 20th century. Albert Camus’ Mythe de Sisyphe (1942; Myth of Sisyphus) and his subsequent Homme révolté…